dspeakes Wrote:
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> Bayberry Wrote:
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> Leave the receipt? At a buffet? Where would you
> leave it? On the table? At the cash register?
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> What purpose would that serve, unless it was a
> handwritten check and I can't remember the last
> time I saw one of those.
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> I would suggest surreptitiously taking a picture
> of the receipt if you do any more of those.
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> If it was a handwritten check, those usually have
> an imprinted number on them that you could mutter
> to your recorder or type in a cell phone with the
> amount. but that just seems a bizarre thing to
> have you do and then ask you for info from it
> later. (But I don't do integrity checks, so maybe
> this is a normal instruction?)
It was for Dataquest, and you were not instructed to take a picture, but to record the info, which I did. I had it all. Apparently, the reason for integrity buffets and paying cash is that the server can reuse your check. There's nothing on it but the buffet. They give it to someone else, and if they pay cash, the server can pocket the money because they never rang in the buffet. So the time and table number become important.
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